National Affairs: Mump Canard

Few diseases are more undignified in adults than mumps and few adults
are more dignified than U. S. Senators. It was with sympathy not
unmixed with glee that readers of The Club-Fellow, jaunty "national
journal of society," read last week that "Senator Joe Robinson has been
suffering that undignified disease . . . and Senator Hiram Johnson of
California has the mumps too." These two gentlemen sit well apart in
the Senate Chamber, on opposite sides of the aisle. Mumps being most
contagious, there was prospect of more mumps among the Senators. Near...